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type | s |
lex_filenum | 00 |
def | difficult to penetrate |
def | incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge |
examples | the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them a deep metaphysical theory some recondite problem in historiography |
Outgoing links | |
Similar to | esoteric |
Derivationally related form | recondite → reconditeness |
Derivationally related form | abstruse → abstrusity; abstruse → abstruseness |
Derivationally related form | abstruse → abstruseness |
Incoming links | |
Similar to | esoteric |
Derived from adjective | abstrusely → abstruse |
Derivationally related form | reconditeness → recondite |
Derivationally related form | abstruseness → abstruse; abstrusity → abstruse |
Derivationally related form | abstruseness → abstruse |
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